World's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive kicks off in India with over 1.91 lakh people getting vaccinated on Day 1: In pics

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (January 16, 2021) launched the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive and said that it celebrates Make in India at a scale that is unparalleled.

 

Prime Minister Modi launched the pan India rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive via video conferencing and expressed that this trust in Indian vaccine expertise and Indian vaccine scientists are going to be further strengthened by the Made in India Corona vaccine. 

PM Modi said that the Indian vaccines are not only much cheaper than the foreign vaccines but they are much easier to administer too. 

 

The Prime Minister put the unprecedented scale of the vaccination drive in perspective by informing that, in the first round itself, 3 crore people, which is more than the population of at least 100 countries of the world, are being vaccinated. 

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal along with state health minister Satyendra Jain visited at LNJP hospital during coronavirus vaccination drive. 

 

The first day of the massive countrywide COVID-19 vaccination program was conducted successfully and a total of 3,352 sessions were held wherein 1,91,181 people were vaccinated as per the provisional reports.

 

Additional 3,429 beneficiaries were vaccinated in Defence institutions. As many as 16,755 personnel were actively involved in organizing the immunization session sites.

 

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Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan launched the COVID-19 vaccination drive at NIMS hospital in Hyderabad.

 

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath inspects the COVID-19 vaccination drive at Balrampur hospital in Lucknow.

 

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A nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine to the frontline workers in Mumbai.

 

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Health care workers at Delhi's Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital administering the COVID-19 vaccine during the 1st phase of the pan India rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive.

 

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren inspects a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Ranchi.

 

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A health worker shows a COVID-19 vaccine vial.

 

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Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy inspecting the 1st Phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive in Kadapa district.

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A medic showing the dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

 

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